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Date:      Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:03:37 -0400
From:      Michael Edenfield <kutulu@kutulu.org>
To:        Robin Schoonover <end@endif.cjb.net>
Cc:        Oliver Eikemeier <eikemeier@fillmore-labs.com>
Subject:   Re: If you're bored during the freeze
Message-ID:  <20040427170337.GA68412@wombat.localnet>
In-Reply-To: <20040427133523.33E5943D53@mx1.FreeBSD.org>
References:  <20040424011249.GA20496@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040427090425.GA21675@Odin.AC.HMC.Edu> <20040427100454.GA62551@xor.obsecurity.org> <20040427131213.DBEAF43D2D@mx1.FreeBSD.org> <408E5EB8.6020008@fillmore-labs.com> <20040427133523.33E5943D53@mx1.FreeBSD.org>

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* Robin Schoonover <end@endif.cjb.net> [040427 09:35]:
> On Tue, 27 Apr 2004 15:23:04 +0200, Oliver Eikemeier wrote:
> > Robin Schoonover wrote:
> > >=20
> > > It gets worse.  One port, that I unfortunately cannot remember now,
> > > deleted the entire /usr/local/www/data tree when I deinstalled it.
> >=20
> > You did not have any important data there, otherwise you would remember
> > which port it was, I guess?
> >=20
>=20
> It did delete important data (a calendar in fact, that is only used by
> about 5-10 people), but I was too worried about finding the backup to
> remember what port it was. :(
>=20
> Fortunately I managed to get the data back in place before anyone
> complained.

At some point in the past, apache itself did this when upgrading
(apache+mod_ssl, specifically).  I got into the habit of never putting
anything useful in that directory so it wouldn't happen again.

--Mike

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